Meta acquiring AI wearable company Limitless

Meta acquiring AI wearable company Limitless

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters Meta is acquiring artificial intelligence wearable startup Limitless, the companies said Friday. … Read more

Meta faces Europe antitrust investigation over WhatsApp AI policy

Meta faces Europe antitrust investigation over WhatsApp AI policy

Meta has been hit with an EU antitrust investigation over its use of AI features in WhatsApp, as the European bloc continues to ramp up challenges to US big tech giants. The probe will examine whether Meta’s new policy on allowing AI providers’ access to WhatsApp may breach EU competition rules, Brussels said in a … Read more

Design executive behind ‘Liquid Glass’ is leaving Apple

Design executive behind ‘Liquid Glass’ is leaving Apple

File: Then Apple Creative Director Alan Dye celebrates the launch of the July Issue at the new WIRED office on June 24, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Kimberly White | Getty Images Apple‘s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta, in a notable shift of executive talent in Silicon Valley. The iPhone … Read more

Nvidia-backed $4 billion AI startup announces major London expansion

Nvidia-backed  billion AI startup announces major London expansion

Nvidia-backed video generation startup Luma AI is joining a growing wave of U.S. tech companies launching operations in the U.K., with major plans for a London expansion revealed on Tuesday. The Palo Alto-headquartered startup will look to hire around 200 employees — making up around 40% of its workforce — at its new London base … Read more

AI stock rally may be driven by fear of missing out, but strategists say hold tight

AI stock rally may be driven by fear of missing out, but strategists say hold tight

A television broadcasts crypto market news at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images AI-related equity valuations may be driven by fear of missing out, known as FOMO — but now’s not the time to get cold feet, according to strategists. Global equities are at … Read more

Meta’s Instagram orders employees back to the office 5 days a week

Meta’s Instagram orders employees back to the office 5 days a week

Instagram has installed a new privacy setting which will default all new and existing underage accounts to an automatic private mode. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Instagram will require U.S.-based employees to work five days a week in an office, Meta confirmed on Monday. The new return-to-office policy will take effect on Feb. 2 and … Read more

Forget AI spending — the biggest risk to this stock market is speculative junk

Forget AI spending — the biggest risk to this stock market is speculative junk

Chicken and egg? Cart before the horse? Six of one, half dozen of the other? After a while, you realize there isn’t a simple phrase to capture the linkages between alternative investments that cloud the landscape of money-making opportunities. What kind of alternative investments am I alluding to? They could be any number of things: … Read more

‘Green light’ away from AI trade: Two ETF executives see a key market shift underway

‘Green light’ away from AI trade: Two ETF executives see a key market shift underway

A key rotation away from artificial intelligence stocks may be underway in the market. According to Astoria Portfolio Advisors’ John Davi, a broader range of stocks are getting a “green light” because liquidity is returning to the system. “The Fed cut rates four times last year. They cut rates twice already. They’re going to go again … Read more

Why rural Wisconsin is blocking the AI data center boom: ‘Horses are skittish’

Why rural Wisconsin is blocking the AI data center boom: ‘Horses are skittish’

A sign opposing a zoning change for a Microsoft data center appears in Caledonia, Wisconsin, on Sept. 19, 2025. Jordan Novet | CNBC The village of Caledonia, Wisconsin, sandwiched between Chicago and Milwaukee along Lake Michigan, is dotted with corn and soybean fields, single-story homes and traffic signs alerting drivers to horseback riders. In September, … Read more

Execs say OpenAI has first hardware prototypes, plan to reveal device in 2 years or less

Execs say OpenAI has first hardware prototypes, plan to reveal device in 2 years or less

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on July 8, 2025. David A. Grogan | CNBC OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Friday that the artificial intelligence startup has finally finished its first prototypes for … Read more